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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:44:20 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>
To:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   hardware meltdown or cosmic ray?
Message-ID:  <14602.26788.441429.641364@whale.home-net>

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Ok. I've got a question I know that one of you SCSI gurus can help with. I was
copying some CDs (data) tonight. Rather than chance buffer underrun, I was
copying the entire disc onto an empty chunk o' disk, then burning those ISOs.
The command I submitted to copy the cd was:

 dd if=/dev/cd0c of=disc.iso

It chugged along with about 200Mb or so snarfed off the disc, then I got these
messages appearing on my console and the whole SCSI subsystem went "dead"
(during the timeouts)

Apr 28 18:44:17 whale /kernel: dscheck: b_bcount 512 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 2048)
Apr 28 18:47:04 whale /kernel: (cd0:ahc0:0:3:0): SCB 0x2 - timed out in dataout phase, SEQADDR == 0x5d
Apr 28 18:47:40 whale /kernel: (cd0:ahc0:0:3:0): Other SCB Timeout
Apr 28 18:47:40 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): SCB 0x3b - timed out in dataout phase, SEQADDR == 0x5d
Apr 28 18:47:40 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): BDR message in message buffer
Apr 28 18:47:40 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): SCB 0x2d - timed out in dataout phase, SEQADDR == 0x5d
Apr 28 18:47:40 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34b
Apr 28 18:47:40 whale /kernel: ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 7 SCBs aborted
Apr 28 20:54:05 whale /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x30401, blkno: 50456, size: 36864
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: (cd0:ahc0:0:3:0): SCB 0x5 - timed out in dataout phase, SEQADDR == 0x5d
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: (cd0:ahc0:0:3:0): Other SCB Timeout
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x30401, blkno: 11536, size: 4096
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x30401, blkno: 50456, size: 36864
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): SCB 0x11 - timed out in dataout phase, SEQADDR == 0x5d
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): BDR message in message buffer
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): SCB 0x11 - timed out in dataout phase, SEQADDR == 0x5e
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: (da1:ahc0:0:6:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34b
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 10 SCBs aborted
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x30401, blkno: 11536, size: 4096
Apr 28 20:54:48 whale /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x30401, blkno: 50456, size: 36864

At that point the machine was just hung solid and required the reset button. I
then powered it down complete and brought it back up. A subsequent dd command
produced no wierd behavior:

root@whale [/data/isos]<21># dd if=/dev/cd0c of=disc.iso
985332+0 records in
985332+0 records out
504489984 bytes transferred in 224.169648 secs (2250483 bytes/sec)

(not a full disc).

Any idea by the looks of these error messages if I'm having some some sort of
H/W meltdown or is your best guess that this was a random occurance (cosmic
rays I like to blame)???

Everything seems "fine" at this point ....

Thanks

-Jr

ps: using adaptec 7890 onboard scsi on a P2B-DS mo-board.

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